Internet, wireless drive top themes for CeBIT '01

It's the 15th year that CeBIT -- officially "Welt-Centrum für Büro-, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik," or World Centre for Office, Information and Communication Technology -- is taking place as an independent fair. The expo grew out of the hundreds of IT and telecommunications exhibitors that were taking up an increasingly large chunk of the annual Hanover Trade Fair, and was launched as a separate event in March 1986.

This year a total of 8,015 exhibitors -- up from 7,892 last year -- will fill over 420,000 square meters of floor space.

A random sampling of new and recent products that exhibitors will be plugging at CeBIT:

- Fuji Magnetics's DVD (digital versatile disc) RAM, which can store 4.7GB of data on a single-sided and 9.4GB on a double-sided version

- Lucent Technologies's WaveStar high-capacity, all-optical router, which the company says offers more than 10TBbps of total switching capacity, or ten times the world's total Internet traffic

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